CLAIRE HALPIN
Claire Halpin
"My practice explores themes and concepts around contested territories and histories. The current artworks are developed from my research into surveillance and attempts to navigate the terrain from the mass clandestine surveillance programmes to the use of drones in unmanned warfare. The work uses imagery from newspaper photos, surveillance, maps and from the canon of art history of Byzantine and Early Renaissance. I am influenced by the complex organisation of space and time in the compositions of Early Renaissance paintings where the narrative unfolds so that more than one thing can be seen to be happening in the picture plane at once.
The themes in the work concern the use of imagery and how we perceive and interpret images depending on how they are painted and how the context in which we view images influences our reading of them. I strive to create beautiful paintings that raise questions about how we choose to record history and the veracity of painting, photography, and the media in documenting future history.
The techniques and processes employed range from traditional form and materials of icon painting to oil painting, drawing, video and installation."
On 16 April 2021, IMMA, the Irish Museum of Modern Art, announced that that they had acquired 3 paintings by the artist. Click
here to find out more about these works
Art Education
1997-1998: Masters in Art and Design [Painting], Grays School of Art, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland.
1992-1996: Advanced Diploma in Fine Art [Painting], School of Art and Design, Dublin Institute of Technology.
1991-1992: Certificate in Art and Design, Coláiste Dhúlaigh, Dublin.
Solo exhibitions
2019
Raw War, Olivier Cornet Gallery, Dublin.
2016
Glomar Response, Olivier Cornet Gallery, Dublin.
2012
Reconstructions, Droichead Arts Centre, Drogheda.
2011
Reconstructions, Talbot Gallery, Dublin.
Tabula Rasa, Cavan County Museum, Cavan.
2010
Anaesthetic Aesthetics, RUA Red, South Dublin Arts Centre, Tallaght.
2008
Always Now, Talbot Gallery, Dublin.
Group Exhibitions
2021
'Memento', Winter group show, Olivier Cornet Gallery
"The Narrow Gate of the Here and Now", Chapter Four: Protest and Conflict, Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA), Dublin.
191th Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, RHA, Dublin.
Taisce Lú: A Curator’s Choice, Droichead Arts Centre, Drogheda (Curator)
Taisce Lú: A Curator’s Choice, Droichead Arts Centre, Drogheda (Curator)
Heritage – Oidhreacht, Leinster Printmaking Studio, Kilcock Arts Gallery, Kildare
2020
On Paper, Winter Group Show curated with Jackie Ryan, Olivier Cornet Gallery, Dublin.
Sculpture in Context Virtual 2020, Online at Sculpture in Context.
Highlanes Open Submission 2020, Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda.
Utopia/ Dystopia, dlr Open Exhibition, Municipal Gallery, dlr Lexicon, Dún Laoghaire.
Drawing on Don Quixote, Olivier Cornet Gallery/ Wexford Opera Festival, Wexford.
2019
Taisce Lú: A Curator’s Choice, Basement Gallery, An Táin, Dundalk
Sculpture in Context 2019, National Botanic Gardens, Dublin.
Leinster Printmaking 20th Anniversary Exhibition, dlr LexIcon Library, Co.Dublin.
Legacy, Boyle Arts Festival, King House, Boyle, Co.Roscommon (Invited Artist).
Cáirde Visual Sligo Arts Festival, The Model, Sligo.
189th Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, RHA, Dublin.
Concerning the Other, Basement Gallery, An Táin, Dundalk.
2018
Somewhere Between Perception and Reality , Olivier Cornet Gallery, Dublin.
Savills Art Prize Shortlist, VUE Art Fair 2018, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin.
Leinster Printmaking 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Kilcock Art Gallery, Kildare.
And the Women Voted, Women Artists from the AIB Art Collection, dlr LexIcon, Dublin.
Sculpture in Context, National Botanic Gardens, Dublin.
38th EVA International, Ireland’s Biennial, Limerick City (Curator Inti Guerrero).
188th Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, Dublin.
Arrival (selected by Gemma Tipton), dlr Open Exhibition, Municipal Gallery, dlr LexIcon (awarded the DLR Open Exhibition Artist Award by art critic Gemma Tipton for Raft I and Raft II).
Cáirde Visual, The Model, Sligo 2018.
Concerning the Other at QSS Gallery, Belfast.
2017
'2° C ', VUE Art Fair 2017 with Olivier Cornet Gallery, Royal Hibernian Academy (RHA), Dublin (Ireland).
Concerning the Other (as both artist and co-curator), Olivier Cornet Gallery, Dublin.
187th Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, Dublin.
Sculpture in Context 2016, National Botanic Gardens, Dublin.
2016
Elevation, VUE Art Fair 2016, with Olivier Cornet Gallery, Royal Hivernian Academy (RHA), Dublin (Ireland).
Republic, Summer group show curated by Eoin Mac Lochlainn and Olivier Cornet, Olivier Cornet Gallery, Dublin.
Effleurements, group show, Olivier Cornet Gallery.
Little Stories, Little Prints, A 1916 Commemorative National Touring Exhibition, Ireland.
Sculpture in Context 2016, National Botanic Gardens, Dublin.
Printed Matter, Galway Print Exchange, Connacht Tribune Gallery, Galway.
Cáirde Visual, Sligo Arts Festival, Yeats Building, Sligo.
186th Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, RHA, Dublin.
2015
Sculpture in Context 2015, National Botanic Gardens, Dublin.
Cáirde Visual, Sligo Arts Festival, Hyde Bridge Gallery, Sligo.
2014
The Palimpsest/ Rianú Project, The Pearse Museum, Dublin (Curated with Eoin Mac Lochlainn).
The Palimpsest/ Rianú Project, An Gailearaí, Gweedore, Donegal.
Artisterium 7, Tbilisi International Art Exhibition, Tbilisi, Georgia (Invited artist).
Sculpture in Context 2014, National Botanic Gardens, Dublin.
2013
Artisterium 6, Tbilisi International Art Exhibition, Tbilisi, Georgia (Irish Curator).
The Bulgarians are coming, Bulgarian Institute/ Standpoint Gallery, London, UK.
Sculpture in Context 2013, National Botanic Gardens, Dublin.
183rd Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, RHA, Dublin.
Larocque Arts Festival, Larocque, France.
Water Tower Art Festival, Sofia, Bulgaria.
Caochspota/ Blindspot, Niland Gallery, Galway.
One Year, Avenue Road Gallery, Dublin.
2012
Fast Moving Consumer Goods, Talbot Gallery, Dublin (Curated with Elaine Grainger).
Sculpture in Context 2012, National Botanic Gardens, Dublin.
Artisterium 5, Tbilisi International Art Exhibition, Tbilisi, Georgia.
182nd Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, RHA, Dublin.
Museum of the Miniature, Skibbereen Arts Festival.
2011
Artisterium 4, Tbilisi International Art Exhibition, Tbilisi, Georgia.
Sculpture in Context 2011, National Botanic Gardens, Dublin.
Wrapped Up, Talbot Gallery, Dublin.
Cluster, Stone Gallery, Dublin.
Commissions
2013-14
Sounding Lines, Green and Blue Futures, Public Art Commission, Tipperary (with Maree Hensey)
2013
Permanent Artwork, Primary School, Temple Street Childrens University Hospital, Dublin
Permanent Artwork, Benincasa Special School, Blackrock, Co.Dublin
2007
Archaeology of the Future, Per Cent for Art Public Commission, St.Kilian’s N.S, Kingswood, Dublin
2006
Corporate Commission, Carton House Hotel, Co.Kildare
Collections
Works in private and public collections including: AXA Insurance, A.I.B Art Collection, O.P.W State Art Collection, The Four Seasons Hotel, Clarion Hotels, Blackrock Hospice Foundation, IMMA, Smirnoff Collection, D.I.T Art Collection, Louth County Council Collection, Cavan County Council Collection and Imago Mundi, Benetton Art Collection
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